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This Middle-English poem about the moral testing of a young hero is commonly described as the greatest Arthurian romance in our literary tradition. It is a question still as to who the author is, but this poet is considered second only to Chaucer.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Notes : With Notes On Pearl and Brief Commentary On Purity and Patience ...
author
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Gardner, John.
publisher
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (US)
isbn10 | asin
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print isbn13
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9780822005155
ebook isbn13
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9780822071914
language
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English
subject
Gawain and the Grene Knight, Pearl (Middle English poem)
publication date
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1967
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ddc
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821.109
subject
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Gawain and the Grene Knight, Pearl (Middle English poem)
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Notes
by John Gardner, Ph.D. Department of English Southern Illinois University
With notes on Pearl and brief commentary on Purity and Patience. including A Note on the Text A Note on Interpretation and the Use of This Volume Introduction Language and Style Summaries and Commentaries Review Questions Selected Bibliography
INCORPORATED LINCOLN, NEBRASKA 68501
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Editor Gary Carey, M.A. University of Colorado
Consulting Editor James L. Roberts, Ph.D. Department of English University of Nebraska
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Contents
A Note on the Text
5
A Note on Interpretation and the Use of this Volume
6
Introduction
9
Language and Style
24
Summaries and Commentaries
Pearl
30
Purity
44
Patience
49
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Part One
50
Part Two
55
Part Three
62
Part Four
67
Review Questions
73
Selected Bibliography
77
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A Note on the Text
The work of the Gawain- or Pearl-poet survives in a single manuscript, the Cotton Nero A.X., named for the bust under which it once stood in the Cotton library, now in the British Museum. The manuscript contains four poems, Pearl, Purity (or Cleanness), Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Similarities of style, dialect, and theme strongly suggest that the four poems are all the work of a single writer. A fifth poem, St. Erkenwald, not found int he same manuscript, has sometimes been attributed to the same poet but is almost certainly the work of another hand.
For a list of the various editions of the poems, both in the original Middle English and in modernized versions, see the Selected Bibliography. The basis of the present volume of Notes is the modernized version by John Gardner, The Complete Works of the Gawain-Poet, but where the modernization sharply departs from the original text the editions followed are Pearl, ed. E. V. Gordon; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. Sir Israel Gollancz; and, occasionally, Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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